So in my post about the new ShopRite last week I noted my annoyance at another customer’s preferred method of payment: check.
More specifically, my irritation stemmed from the fact that this method of payment turned a simple transaction into a five-minute ordeal that entailed fishing the checkbook out of a handbag, writing the check, processing the check and noting the purchase in the checkbook’s ledger.
Why, oh why do people pay at the grocery store with a check?
And second, why oh why do I always end up behind these people in line?
We’ll assume the second question only can be answered by higher power. But, as to the first, I’d really love to know what the advantage is to writing a check? Is it getting cash back? Is it owning stock in an ink company? Is it some sick, sadistic pleasure in watching me whistle the entirety of Symphony No. 5 while you and the cashier make idle chatter and mock all of us who shorten this process 100-fold with a simple swipe and sign?
Why, Grocery Store Check Writer?
Instruct me in your time-consuming ways.